Chapter 101: The Old Past

I thought about it, anyway, it's still early, and I have nothing to do when I go back, so it's okay to go and sit with Ye Xing, so I nodded at him.

Ye Xing smiled happily and led me to the location of the house he rented in Chengcun.

Ye Xing is a boy who knows how to live, and he rents a place closer to the inside, so he is not disturbed by the hustle and bustle around him.

I followed him into the winding alley, and finally came to a building built by the inhabitants of the city.

Ye Xing used the key to open the anti-theft iron door and took me up to the second floor.

The room he rented was not small, about 20 square meters, with a small bathroom, the room was in addition to a double bed, a bookcase against the wall, a wardrobe, and a computer desk.

This room is not old, and you can still see the traces of painting, but Ye Xing still used plain curtains to decorate the position of the wall below two meters, and some plants such as pothos were placed on the windowsill and bookcase as decorations, so the tone of the whole room is very elegant, not like a boy's bedroom, but a little like a girl's bedroom.

However, when I think of Ye Xing, who studied art, the boys who studied art are more beautiful, so it is understandable that the room is more elegantly decorated. Just like the boy he used to share a room with, they were both studying art, and their rooms looked very clean and tidy at that time.

I smiled and sat down in the little swivel chair in front of his window, and whispered, "Yes, the nest is very warm." As I spoke, I looked out the window.

It was midsummer, and the windows of Ye Xing's cottage were split steel windows, and at this time, they were open to the second floor for coolness, so the field of vision was relatively wide, and the scenery downstairs was in full view.

The tall and low urban dwellings, the winding power lines, and the few birds that flew by from time to time, all jumped into my field of vision, and in the distance, I could even see the street where we had shop, and some of the shop signs on both sides of the street, and the dense crowds.

I leaned in front of the window, staring at the scenery outside the window in a daze, looking a little dazed for a while.

"It's not bad to sit here and watch the scenery, right?" I don't know when Ye Xing was already standing behind me, he put his hands on the window frames on both sides of my body, leaned down and whispered to me.

In this position, I was in the shape of his arms, his blazing eyes staring at me, and the warm breath of exhalation like an orchid sprayed on the side of my neck, making my heart flutter, and a warm current sliding through my heart.

"Yes, it's good!" I replied as flatly as I could.

He smiled, then stood up straight, and said to me gently, "I went downstairs to buy a few cold drinks, I forgot about it." So saying, he walked out the door.

I watched as he walked out of the house and slowly got up and wandered around his cabin boredly.

His sheets and pillowcases were pale blue, clean, and the bedding was neatly arranged, without the scruffy feeling of a young boy's idleness, as he did as he looked.

This is the main quality of him that attracted me from the beginning.

Thinking of this, a faint wry smile appeared on the corner of my mouth, and my mood was a little complicated.

I paced in front of his bookcase, aimlessly searching for books that appealed to me.

Suddenly, my eyes were drawn to a booklet in plastic packaging sandwiched in a less conspicuous position at the bottom, because I intuitively felt that it was a photo album.

I slowly pulled out the plastic-wrapped notebook, opened it, and as I expected, it was indeed a photo album.

I opened it and looked at it, the first few pages are photos of Ye Xing when he was a child, although he didn't tell me, but from the photos, I can still recognize him at a glance, because although Ye Xing has grown up, the clean and clear feeling when he looks at people has not changed, his eyes are very bright, which is also a point that attracted me at the beginning, so, even if he was mixed in a group of children, I quickly recognized him.

The photos are all photos of him and some children, the background seems to be some kind of paradise, there are a lot of toys, and musical instruments such as pianos, it seems that Ye Xing is smiling happily, there are a few photos, and there is an elderly woman, she wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, gently hugging those children, and smiling kindly at the camera.

I continued to flip backwards and flips through and a unique photo caught my eye.

This is a black-and-white photograph of a beautiful, dignified and demure woman, who is only in her early twenties at the time, with beautiful Hepburn-style hair, light makeup, curved eyebrows, bright eyes, and smiling at the camera.

She was wearing an old-fashioned cheongsam, and because it was a black and white photo, she couldn't see the specific color, but she could only see that the black base material had a faint pattern on it.

It should have been some years since I looked at this photo, at least for more than thirty or forty years, because the photos were slightly yellowed, but looking at this woman's outfit, it was impossible for a mainland woman at that time to dress up so beautifully and fashionably, so who was she?

With a suspicious mood, I continued to flip back, and when I got to the back, some photos of Ye Xing and his family began to appear.

Inferring from Ye Xing's age in the photo, he should be less than ten years old, and there are more photos of him with a woman in her thirties, it seems that this woman should be his biological mother, because there is a family photo of their family of three behind, and that man should be his father.

Flip to the back again, the young woman who took a photo with Ye Xing in front is gone, and what appears in the family photo is the figure of another woman, this may be Ye Xing's stepmother, this woman is younger than Ye Xing's biological mother, but not as beautiful as her, there is a tricky air between her eyebrows, she is holding a small baby in her arms, that should be Ye Xing's younger brother.

In this album, there are relatively few group photos of Ye Xing with his father, stepmother and younger brother, only two or three, but there are only two or three group photos, each of them has a cold expression and a stiff posture, basically Ye Xing's father and stepmother are sitting in front, holding his younger brother, Ye Xing is standing alone in the back, which shows that the relationship between them is indeed very ordinary.

This album is turned down as a whole, giving me a feeling: Ye Xing's appearance is neither like his mother nor his father, it should be said that he is more beautiful than his biological parents, because his parents' appearance is just ordinary people in the strict sense, but Ye Xing's facial features and figure are very outstanding, maybe he combines the advantages of his parents.

I was sitting there thinking silently about this album, and I didn't know when Ye Xing had quietly walked to my side.

"Looking through my house?" he asked me teasingly, handing me a drink, laughing.

I smiled faintly, took the drink he handed over, then put the album on the desk, turned back to the previous page, turned to the page with the black and white photo, pointed to the beautiful woman in the photo and asked Ye Xing: "Who is this person?

Ye Xing lowered his head and looked at it carefully, then touched his nose and replied lightly with a smile: "Oh, she is my enlightenment music teacher, a returned overseas Chinese, who came back in the eighties. ”

"Oh, that's ......" I suddenly realized, no wonder this woman's temperament is so good, it turns out that she is engaged in music, so the kind of good charm on her body should be the temperament of an artist.

Ye Xing's explanation also reasonably explained why that woman had a beautiful style in a cheongsam with coiled hair thirty or forty years ago, because she was an overseas Chinese and was not in the mainland at that time, so her dress should be in the style of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

I was still immersed in the aftertaste that this album brought me, but Ye Xing had already quietly taken the album away from me, he took my hand, sat down slowly on the edge of the bed, smiled at me and said to me: "Don't just stare at that album, tell me how you feel about my room? ”

With a drink in one hand and one hand being pulled by him, I looked around his room a little reservedly, and whispered to him, "It's not bad, it's clean and elegant." Then I asked him, "How much does this room cost a month?"

Ye Xing smiled and propped his hands on the bed behind him, and replied to me: "The rent here is cheap, this room is only 500 yuan." ”

I nodded lightly and said, "It's very cheap, such a large area, this price is absolutely impossible to rent in the community." Then I smiled and asked Ye Xing, "How much do you earn a month now?"

Ye Xing smiled, smiled brightly, and he said to me in a matter-of-fact manner: "A man's purse is the same age as a woman's, and you can't ask casually." As he spoke, he reached out again and pulled me along.

I was pulled by him to his side and sat down slowly, pretending to be disdainful and "cutting", and whispered: "If you don't tell, forget it." ”

We sat side by side on the edge of his bed, I silently drank the drink in my hand, and Ye Xing watched me beside me.

His gaze looked at me a little embarrassed, and the roots of my ears were feverish, and after a moment, I couldn't help but turn my head and whisper to him in a pretended annoyance, "What are you looking at?"

Ye Xing turned his head with a smile, hesitated, and then said slowly: "I'm looking at you, are you still ...... Hate me ......"